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TIL that Indiana Jones was inspired by the Italian Giovanni Battista Balzoni, a 2 meters tall strong-man, idraulic engeneer, explorer, pioneer egittologist and archeologist, and last but not least he had the title of "Templar Knight" given to him by the british masonry

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